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Hey folks, as I've said before, one of the things I like to do is take your comments, questions and feedback directly to the right folks inside Microsoft. They have all sorts of scientific methods, analysts, and smarties that give them information, usage details, etc. Sometimes, however, I like to throw the product planners the occasional totally RAW web survey, just to make sure that there's fewer layers between me and the bosses. That said, please take 10 seconds and fill out this ONE QUESTION SURVEY . Feel free to tweet it on Twitter, forward it to your friends, or blog it. http://www.tinyurl.com/dotnetsurvey Yes, the survey is missing things. It's a survey about larger framework subsystems, not languages, not Silverlight, etc...

Mehfuz Hossain has created a cool open source application based on ASP.NET MVC The CodePlex project can be found HERE ! You can use the application LIVE - HERE ! Read More...

Here are a few cool links I found today while catching up on my IIS reading:   URL Rewrite In case you missed it, the IIS7 URL Rewrite extension is now licensed for production use in its final beta release.  Deploy it today and get all the benefits from one of the most powerful IIS7 features around.  Use it to clean up URLs, provide extension-less URLs, fix canonicalization issues with your site to improve search ranking, redirect incoming users and much, much more.  This latest URL Rewrite release includes all new IIS Manager support for creating rewrite rules using templates, rule testing and more.  Speaking of the URL Rewrite extension, check out these community links: CarlosAg wrote a really awesome post on how to...

I created three new ASP.NET MVC tutorials that were just published at the www.ASP.net/mvc website. There are both C# and VB.NET versions of each tutorial. Here are the direct links and descriptions: Creating Custom HTML Helpers Create new HTML Helpers to make it easier to generate view content. Stephen Walther demonstrates two simple methods of creating new HTML Helpers. Creating Model Classes with LINQ to SQL Learn how to create data access classes by taking advantage of Microsoft LINQ to SQL. In this video tutorial, you learn how to use a LINQ to SQL DataContext class directly within a controller. You also learn how to use the Repository Pattern to create testable and flexible database-driven applications. Displaying a Table of Database Data...

Here are four new tips on Tips and Tricks Blog. Tip #10 Did you know… Visual Web Developer 2008 has a New Style Builder Dialog? Tip #11 Did you know… New Style builder can be invoked from various other tool windows in Visual Web Developer. Tip #12: Did you know..How to create an IIS Virtual Directory from within Visual Web Developer? Tip #13: Did you know... How to get the browser agent using ASP.NET Ajax ? Have a nice weekend! Reshmi Mangalore SDET, Web Development Tools Read More...

Last year I noticed that there were 11 ways to get to my blog. Literally 11 different URLs and it wasn't helping me my ranking in the search engines. I wrote about this in detail and how I used ISAPI_Rewrite to fix it up . Fast forward to this year and the IIS7 team has been taking advantage of IIS7's modular design to release a bunch of new modules out-of-band . Both the newest ISAPI_Rewrite and Apache's standard mod_rewrite module uses distributed configuration files or .htaccess files. Here's just part of my .htaccess file that makes sure that all the incoming URLs end up at the final canonical http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ RewriteRule /blog/default\.aspx http\://www.hanselman.com/blog/ [I,RP] RewriteCond Host: ^hanselman...

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Best Practices for Creating ASP.NET websites with IIS 6.0 : Omar Al Zabir, author of the excellent Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 book , has a great article that details best practices to follow when setting up a site on IIS 6.0.  Definitely worth reading and book-marking. ASP.NET Dynamic Data Videos using VB: Bill Burrows has put together an awesome series of videos that show off how to use the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data support provided in .NET 3.5 SP1.  You can find more links to ASP.NET Dynamic Data tutorials...

The PDC 2008 schedule is locked down. Looks like my main talk is on the first day, 10/27 at 5:15pm-6:30pm. Come to the talk and we'll all go out for tacos afterwards, maybe a party. :) The scheduling tool is a little wonky, but if you want to add my talk to your sessions, you can go to https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/sessions.aspx , sign in, search for "hanselman" then click "Add to My Sessions" in the lower right corner. Here's the title and abstract: Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies Join Scott Hanselman for this lots-of-code-minimal slides talk that walks through the sheer joy of building out a .NET Framework application with Visual Studio using many of the new advances in...

In this tip, I explore one approach to building Ajax applications with ASP.NET MVC. I show how you can use view data when building Ajax applications with ASP.NET MVC in the same way as you would use view data when building server-side application. I demonstrate how to create a custom HTML Helper that renders client view data. One of the primary benefits of building an ASP.NET MVC application is that it enables you to build web applications that support a sharp separation of concerns. This sharp separation of concerns enables you to build applications that are highly testable and highly adaptable to future change. Communication between the different parts of an ASP.NET MVC application is extremely constrained. An MVC view only talks to an MVC...

We had an interesting conversation with the good people from the Alt.NET podcast on jQuery and what it means for .NET developers. Check it out: http://altnetpodcast.com/episodes/11-jquery-in-asp.net Read More...